Paper presents some of the latest advances in the use of iDTV for educational purposes offering learner to actively participate in the course. We explore the potentials to expand the power of iDTV by delivering interactive ...

One of the most impending drawbacks of modern information technology and communication devices is the problem of user interfacing. The focus of the research community to tackle this problem is almost exclusively set to the ...

Learning is more than knowledge acquisition; it often involves the active participation of the learner in a variety of knowledge- and skills-based learning and training activities. Interactive multimedia technology can ...

Process control and improvement are keys to successful businesses. A working Experience Factory helps to achieve them but it is not easy to implement. The PROM Experience Manager (PEM) is designed to facilitate such ...

In this paper, we illustrate our methodology for academic teaching, based on cooperative learning paradigm, which also relies on cutting edge e-learning techniques. We use Web 2.0 resources to fulfill requirements for an ...

The Service Oriented Architecture paradigm, and its implementation based on Web Services, have been the object of an intense research and standardization activity. One of the most challenging open research issues is the ...

In this paper, we illustrate how a cooperative learning paradigm may benefit from cutting edge e-learning techniques. We use Web 2.0 resources (especially AJAX) to fulfill requirements for an interactive-constructivistic ...

Representing part-whole relations and effectively using them in domain ontologies and conceptual data models poses multiple challenges. In this paper we face the issue of imposing temporal constraints on part-whole ...

One of the top objectives of European Commission, is to grant that the introduction of eGovernment does not lead to new barriers due to a lack of interoperability. In this sense, we consider Free/Libre Open Source Software ...